Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADP) 2023/2024 Annual Survey

Footnotes

1. This specifically refers to ADP level and not at service level as service-level is not necessarily something ADPs could report on directly.

2. For questions categorised by age group, where response options are considered to be directly applicable only to specific age categories (such as recovery communities, OST, employability support, Planet Youth), any responses relating to non-relevant age categories have been excluded from the analysis. A small number of ADP responses indicated that these are available for non-relevant age categories - it has been assumed that this is due to the question being interpreted differently to how it was intended.

3. Planet Youth in Scotland is currently operating across 24 schools in 6 areas of Scotland (Argyll & Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Angus, Highland and West Dunbartonshire).

4. Safer drug consumption facilities are supervised and controlled healthcare settings where people can consume drugs, obtained elsewhere, in the presence of trained health and social care professionals, in clean and hygienic environments with the aim of reducing the risk of overdose and infectious diseases whilst offering support and access to healthcare services.

5. Safe supply of substances refers to the provision of illegal drugs to those most at risk to help avoid overdose due to unsafe supply. Safe supply initiatives are most commonly in place for opioids in contexts where the risk of death from synthetics is most severe but can also extend to other drugs in areas where this poses a significant risk.

6. Specialist courts are tailored to take a problem-solving approach, aiming to change an individual’s behaviour and hold them accountable through regular monitoring, by the same Sheriff each time, whilst they work with support to address the issues that underpin their offending. Specialist courts can focus on various issues, for example there can be specialist “drug courts” or “alcohol courts”, more general “substance use courts”, or even wider “problem solving courts”, which support people with multiple complex needs.

7. In areas that do not fund services specifically for CPO treatment requirements or DTTOs, these orders might still be imposed regularly and delivered utilising mainstream treatment services, or they may be unavailable and not imposed regularly.

8. Note that not all ADPs have prisons in the area, with prisons being located in 17 local authorities.

9. Pre-arrest: Services for police to refer people into without making an arrest.

10. In police custody: Services available in police custody suites to people who have been arrested.

11. In courts: Services delivered in collaboration with the courts (e.g. services only available through a specialist drug court, services only available to people on a DTTO).

12. In prison: Services available to people in prisons or young offenders’ institutions in your area (if applicable).

13. Upon release: Services aimed specifically at supporting people transitioning out of custody.

14. Anyone receiving treatment on any kind of order may have testing included in their treatment plan as part of their treatment agreement with the NHS, but this is separate to statutory testing reported back to courts.

15. An Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) is a short, evidence-based, structured conversation about alcohol consumption with a patient or service-user that seeks, in a non-confrontational way, to motivate and support the individual to think about and/or plan a change in their drinking behaviours in order to reduce their consumption and/or their risk of harm.

16. For questions categorised by age group, where response options are considered to be directly applicable only to specific age categories (such as recovery communities, OST, employability support, Planet Youth), any responses relating to non-relevant age categories have been excluded from the analysis. A small number of ADP responses indicated that these are available for non-relevant age categories - it has been assumed that this is due to the question being interpreted differently to how it was intended.

17. For questions categorised by age group, where response options are considered to be directly applicable only to specific age categories (such as recovery communities, OST, employability support, Planet Youth), any responses relating to non-relevant age categories have been excluded from the analysis. A small number of ADP responses indicated that these are available for non-relevant age categories - it has been assumed that this is due to the question being interpreted differently to how it was intended.